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| Article Name : | | | A Study of Irrigation projects | | Author Name : | | | Nejkar D.G. | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4640 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The concept of irrigation implies the existence of a source of water and an arrangement to regulate the supply of water from the source to the crops raised in the fields [1]. Irrigation is an age-old art, as old as the agriculture itself and also a sine qua non to the agriculture. The middle-eastern country of Egypt has the world's oldest irrigation dam, 355 feet long and 40 feet high, built 5000 years ago. An ancient Queen of Assyria, also in the modern-day middle-east, who had lived 4000 years ago, is credited to have first introduced State intervention into the irrigation, while diverting the water of the river Nile to irrigate the desert lands of Assyria. Her tombstone reads, "I constrained the mighty river to flow according to my will and let its waters fertilize lands that had before been barren and without inhabitants". Basin irrigation introduced on the river Nile in those times still plays an important role in the Egyptian agriculture. | | Keywords : | | |
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